Microctenonyx
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Microctenonyx
| authority = Dahl, 1886
| type_species = M. subitaneus
| type_species_authority = (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 4, see text
| synonyms =
- Alaxchelicera Butler, 1932{{cite journal| last1=Scharff| first1=N.| last2=Hormiga| first2=G.| year=2013| title=On the Australian linyphiid spider Alaxchelicera ordinaria Butler, 1932 (Araneae)| journal=Zootaxa| volume=3750| issue=2| page=194| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3750.2.8| pmid=25113690| doi-access=free}}
- Aulacocyba Simon, 1926{{cite journal| last1=Prószyński| first1=J.| last2=Staręga| first2=W.| year=1971| title=Pająki-Aranei| journal=Katalog Fauny Polski| volume=33| page=176}}
}}
Microctenonyx is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1886.{{cite journal| last=Dahl| first=F.| year=1886| title=Monographie der Erigone-Arten im Thorell' schen. Sinne, nebst anderen Beiträgen zur Spinnenfauna SchleswigHolsteins| journal=Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein| pages=65–102| volume=6| author-link=Friedrich_Dahl}}
Species
{{as of|2019|05}} it contains four species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Microctenonyx Dahl, 1886| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-06-16| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1442| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Microctenonyx apuliae (Caporiacco, 1951) – Italy
- Microctenonyx cavifrons (Caporiacco, 1935) – Karakorum
- Microctenonyx evansae (Locket & Russell-Smith, 1980) – Nigeria
- Microctenonyx subitaneus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) (type) – Europe, Macaronesia, North Africa to Kyrgyzstan. Introduced to USA, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand